3 September 2012

Introducing Papaya Collage



This was one of the cards that everyone made at my launch party & I've shared a few of these with fellow demos in the last week too, talk about fast to create & loving the new Vintage style stamps in our new catalogue. I was inspired by Deena Boos & tweaked her original design a wee bit to work with what I had. So big thanks Deena the card was a huge success.



Stamps: Papaya Collage, En Francais (background)
Ink: Soft Suede, Crumb Cake, Primrose Petals
Paper: Primrose Petals, Soft Suede, Natural Ivory, Very Vanilla
Other: Sponge, Crumb Cake seam binding ribbon, 1-3/4" bow maker, dimensionals, cutter tool (retired), spritzer, Soft Suede marker, mini glue dots


Cutting instructions:
Primrose Petals A5, Soft Suede 10 x 14.3cm, Natural Ivory 9.5 x 13.8 cm, Very Vanilla 2-1/4" x 3" (two pieces)

1. Ink up En Francais with Crumb Cake (take the pad to the stamp & tap all over), stamp on the left hand side, repeat to fill in the approx. 1" blank piece on the right hand side - don't worry if it overlaps. It disappears when the frame is stamped on.

2. Stamp the frame from Papaya Collage in Soft Suede - see photo for placement.

3. Distress the edges with the cutter tool (or use the blade of your scissors) and sponge with Soft Suede or Crumb Cake around the edge.

4. On one piece of Very Vanilla stamp the rose image with Primrose Petals - stamp lightly this is a NEW style pad & is "juicy". On the other piece stamp the fern in Crumb Cake & the thrush with Soft Suede - the bird is just peeking in. Distress & sponge the edges & you can also spritz with a Soft Suede marker.

5. I have just adhered the layers together with no dimensionals and to me they jump out as is - but you are welcome to use dimensionals if you want too. Adhere the rose though with a dimesional & the Crumb Cake bow with a mini glue dot.

Many thanks to those that attended my launch parties & I am very excited about the new stuff so hope we have a lot of fun exploring & learning together with them.

1 September 2012

D-day is here :))))))))))))

And I am so very  pleased & excited to share with you the links to the new catalogues.


Click HERE to see the Annual Catalogue for 2012-13 (expires 30 June 2013 - yep next year our new AC kicks off  July 1st just ONE MONTH later than the States).

Click HERE to see the Holiday Catalogue (expires 31st January 2013).

After seeing these online I'm sure you'll want your own copy & I am happy to send you a copy directly to you for $10 with an A5 piece of each our 5 new in-colours: Midnight Muse, Summer Starfruit, Gumball Green, Primrose Petals, Raspberry Ripple. Just drop me a line.

One more sleep to go

& yah tomorrow is D-day & we can finally order from our new catalogues & wow we're spoilt 2 catalogues in 1 day - so much choice it's like where do I start - my poor own copy of the catalogues is full of post-it-notes - hopefully after tomorrow a few will have disappeared, well we're not allowed to post the catalogues or links till they're live on the SU! site so I'll share a wee notecard that was one of the projects at my first catalogue launch party tonight where "you" got to stamp the ornament in the old & the new ink pads - I bought a Cherry Cobbler to have a comparison. Well everyone was converted we just all have to learn how to re-ink our stamps up!


Stamp sets: Delightful Decorations, Teeny Weeny Sentiments
Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Gumball Green
Paper: Whisper White (3x3" notecard)
Other: Dazzling details glitter glue, Gumball Green satin stitched ribbon, Ornament punch, dimensionals